Passenger

Originally a band from 2003 to 2009, Passenger became the solo project of Michael David Rosenberg, born in Brighton on May 17, 1984. Guitarist, composer and performer, he met Andrew Phillips and recorded the rock album Wicked Man's Rest (2007), under the name Passenger, with five other musicians. After the split, Michael Rosenberg decided to keep the Passenger name for his folk-style activities. Settling in Australia after a tour, he worked on the album Wide Eyes Blind Love (2009), produced by his former partner Andrew Phillips, followed by Divers and Submarines, a limited-edition recording. His third solo album, Flight of the Crow (2010), features contributions from a number of local artists, including Josh Pyke, Lior, Boy & Bear, Katie Noonan and Kate Miller-Heidke. In 2012, international success followed with the release of All the Little Lights, ranked No. 1 folk album in the UK, No. 3 on the independent and mainstream charts, and No. 26 on the Billboard 200 (No. 46 in France). The album benefits from the worldwide success of "Let Her Go",#2 in the UK and #5 in the US. This success did not distract the musician from his chosen independent path, and continued with the diptych Whispers (2014) and Whispers II (2015), followed by Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea (2016), ranked #1 in album sales in the UK and Australia. After The Boy Who Cried Wolf (2017, #5), Passenger presents its tenth collection Runaway (2018, #6), followed by Sometimes It's Something, Sometimes It's Nothing at All (2019), a digital-only album recorded at Abbey Road Studios, with proceeds going to homeless charity Shelter. In 2020, the following album Patchwork, conceived during the confinement linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, sees its profits earmarked for the organization The Trussell Trust, while 2021 marks the release of Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, recorded at the same time as its predecessor. Released in 2025, the album One for the Road features compositions from the musical The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, adapted from the novel by Rachael Joyce.

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